History Main / JawsAttackParody

* This was the PlotPoint of the ''WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants'' episode "Clams", in which Mr. Krabs swears revenge on a clam that stole his millionth dollar, when he took Spongebob and Squidward on a fishing trip in celebration of earning said dollar. Of course, Mr. Krabs summoned the clam in the first place by playing ominous music.

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* In the WesternAnimation/{{Garfield Special|s}} "Garfield's Feline Fantasies", Garfield tries to get at Jon's goldfish, only for the Jaws theme to start playing and for a shark to emerge from the fishbowl and scare Garfield.

* One of the [[https://pisces.bbystatic.com/image2/BestBuy_US/images/products/6266/6266706_so.jpg posters]] for ''Film/TheMeg'' copies the poster for ''Jaws'' by showing a shark chasing a diver... and then shows what's behind ''the shark''. Namely, [[SummonBiggerFish an even bigger]] [[{{Megalodon}} shark]].

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* ''Advertising/CharlieTheTuna'': Bruce is introduced rearing up from an underwater cliff in the same position as the Jaws cover. He's even named for the production nickname for the shark animatronic, and is hinted to be the shark from the movie as well, being a Hollywood star.

* ''ComicBook/SuskeEnWiske'': In the story "Het Kregelige Ketje" Manneken Pis falls in the sea and is attacked by a shark mimicking the "Jaws" poster. The animal even adds another wink by saying: "Maybe this will make me eligible for "the film"."

* One ''ComicStrip/FoxTrot'' strip has Paige idly humming the ''Jaws'' theme while standing by her locker. When she looks up, the nerdy boy with a crush on her has suddenly appeared right in front of her. She, of course, lets out a [[FauxHorrific bloodcurdling scream.]]

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* There's a ''Jaws'' parody at the beginning of the film ''Film/NineteenFortyOne1979'', which even has [[AdamWesting the same actress]] as the beginning of ''Jaws'' (not to mention [[Creator/StevenSpielberg the same director]]) going skinnydipping, where she's "attacked" by a Japanese submarine.
* Several 1980s and late 1970s movies [[FollowTheLeader trying to emulate the box-office success]] of ''Jaws'':
** The film ''Film/OrcaTheKillerWhale'' is essentially ''Jaws'' with a killer whale instead of a shark. However, the only reason the killer whale killed people was for revenge after his mate and unborn child were killed.
** The 1978 B-movie ''Film/{{Barracuda}}'' is [[FollowTheLeader basically a clone]] of ''Jaws'' involving a beachfront resort town being terrorized. Unlike the aforementioned ''Jaws'' or ''Orca'' however, this movie involves not one but several killer fish.
** The low-budget horror movie [[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082083/ Blood Beach]] was about a killer creature that lurked beneath the sands of the beach and sucked beach goers into the sand.
** One of the first shark-themed movies to appear after ''Jaws'' was the aptly-titled ''The Jaws of Death''.
* The opening of ''Film/{{Airplane}}'' shows the plane's tail slowly and menacingly moving between the clouds, set to the Jaws theme tune.
* ''Film/{{Sharknado}}'', unsurprisingly, contains multiple shout-outs to ''Jaws'':
** First, there's a moment when the characters feed a shark a scuba tank and then shoot the tank.
** Nova's backstory includes the line "Six people went in the water that day, and one little girl came out", a reference to Quint's monologue about his near-shark experience in WWII.
** And finally, "We're gonna [[GonnaNeedMoreTrope need a bigger chopper!]]"
* The parody horror movie ''Saturday The 14th'' manages to pull off a ''Jaws'' spoof coupled with a spoof of another famous horror movie by having a fin show up in a bathtub of a bathing girl, complete with a similar riff, only for the monster to rise and reveal an {{Expy}} of ''Film/CreatureFromTheBlackLagoon''.
* Also done in the Dutch comedy ''Film/{{Filmpje}}'' (1995) with Paul De Leeuw, when his character swims towards other beach guests, who immediately run in freight. The music during this scene is directly taken from "Jaws".
* ''Film/AceVenturaPetDetective'' features a scene in which Ace encounters a great white shark in a large aquarium tank, thinking he had found Snowflake, a dolphin. The setup is a reference to Brody's first direct meeting with the shark on the ''Orca'', and what follows is a very silly parody of the original attack on the skinny dipping girl.
* One of the [[https://pisces.bbystatic.com/image2/BestBuy_US/images/products/6266/6266706_so.jpg posters]] for ''Film/TheMeg'' copies the poster for ''Jaws'' by showing a shark chasing a diver... and then shows what's behind ''the shark''. Namely, [[SummonBiggerFish an even bigger]] [[{{Megalodon}} shark]].

* ''Series/TheNewAvengers'' episode "Gnaws". Giant rats in London's [[AbsurdlySpaciousSewer Absurdly Spacious Sewers]].
* The "Land Shark" sketches from the early run of ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'', where the shark knocks on someone's front door (with the theme music playing in the background), usually passing himself off as a Candy-gram, then attacking them when they open the door.
* A shark gobbles up a Whammy and Tammy Whammette as they water ski on ''Series/PressYourLuck.'' Another Whammy rides the fin of a shark as it swims by and gobbles up the contestant's score.

* ''WesternAnimation/MrBogus'':
** The first act of the episode "[[Recap/MrBogusS1E3ADayAtTheOffice A Day At The Office]]" had Bogus getting chased by a shark that Mr. Anybody had added to the picture of the beachside setting.
** This was subverted in the first act of the episode "[[Recap/MrBogusS1E6BeachBlanketBogus Beach Blanket Bogus]]", as while a shark does start chasing after Brattus while he's surfing, the shark just winds up running into a rock and gets taken out of action before Brattus could even notice that he was being followed.
* This was the PlotPoint of the ''WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants'' episode "Clams", in which Mr. Krabs swears revenge on a clam that stole his millionth dollar, when he took Spongebob and Squidward on a fishing trip in celebration of earning said dollar. Of course, Mr. Krabs summoned the clam in the first place by playing ominous music.
** There's also "[=SpongeBob=], Sandy and the Worm", in which Bikini Bottom is terrorized by an Alaskan bullworm, and Sandy goes after it because it ate her tail. It even includes a parody of Shaw's introduction from ''Film/{{Jaws}}''.
* In the WesternAnimation/{{Garfield Special|s}} "Garfield's Feline Fantasies", Garfield tries to get at Jon's goldfish, only for the Jaws theme to start playing and for a shark to emerge from the fishbowl and scare Garfield.

* While adrift in a lifeboat, the starving Miguel and Tulio from [=DreamWorks'=] ''WesternAnimation/TheRoadToElDorado'' brighten when an exhausted seagull lands on the far end of an oar. However, before the two men can capture the bird, a shark breaks the surface, and devours the bird and half the oar in one bite. The shark is seen exactly as it appears on the ''Film/{{Jaws}}'' movie poster. Technically, this is an in-house ShoutOut, since Steven Spielberg directed ''Film/{{Jaws}}'' and is one founder of [=DreamWorks SKG=].
* Two cartoon series appeared shortly after ''Jaws'': [=DePatie=]-Freleng's ''Misterjaw'' and Hanna-Barbera's ''Jabberjaw''.
* The ''WesternAnimation/BobsBurgers'' episode "The Deepening". A movie with a similar plot was filmed in town years ago, and Mr. Fischoder buys the mechanical shart from the movie as a parkside attraction. The Belcher kids play with it and it turns on and falls on its side, sending it wriggling across the block. The residents treat is as if it were a real shark attacking, and it's up to Bob to stop it.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'':
** In the episode "Itchy and Scratchy Land" a flashback shows the Simpsons at a beach where Homer scares everybody away with a fake dorsal fin on his back. When Bart does the same he believes him to be "Sharkboy" and runs away too. The music during this scene is a parody of "Jaws".
** "Lisa's First Word": Homer and Marge consider buying a houseboat from the Sea Captain; his pitch is cut short by a shark, which he proceeds to fight. The shark looks identical to the one on the "Jaws" poster.

* ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales2017'': The episode "Jaw$". The triplets go for a midnight swim in the money bin, and Dewey gets "eaten" by a golden shark. Then they team up with Webby, Lena, and Launchpad (who declares vengeance on the shark much like Quint), steal Donald's boat and try to lure in the shark with chum (in this case, treasure). After eating almost everyone, the shark eventually gets blown up from the inside.

* ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales2017'': The episode "Jaw$". It starts with the triplets going for a midnight swim in the money bin, and Dewey gets "eaten" by a golden shark. Then they team up with Webby, Lena, and Launchpad (who declares vengeance on the shark much like Quint), steal Donald's boat and try to lure in the shark with chum (in this case, treasure). After eating almost everyone, the shark eventually gets blown up from the inside.

* ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales2017'': The episode "Jaw$". The episode starts with the triplets going for a midnight swim in the money bin, and Dewey gets "eaten" by a golden shark. Then they team up with Webby, Lena, and Launchpad (who declares vengeance on the shark much like Quint), steal Donald's boat and try to lure in the shark with chum (in this case, treasure). After eating almost everyone, the shark eventually gets blown up from the inside.

* ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales2017'': The episode "Jaw$" is obviously a WholePlotReference to ''Jaws''. The episode starts with the triplets going for a midnight swim in the money bin, and Dewey gets "eaten" by a golden shark. Then they team up with Webby, Lena, and Launchpad (who declares vengeance on the shark much like Quint), steal Donald's boat and try to lure in the shark with chum (in this case, treasure). After eating almost everyone, the shark eventually gets blown up from the inside.

* ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales2017'': The episode "Jaw$" is obviously a WholePlotReference to ''Jaws''. The episode starts with the triplets going for a midnight swim in the money bin, and Dewey gets "eaten" by a golden shark. Then they team up with Webby, Lena, and Launchpad (who declares vengeance on the shark much like Quint), steal Donald's boat and try to lure in the shark with chum (in this case, treasure). After eating almost everyone, the shark eventually gets blown up from the inside.

* In the original 16-series issue of Wacky Packages from the mid-1970s they parodied Jaws. [[http://www.wackypackages.org/stickers/15th_series/gums_small.html The sticker was "Gums", the world's oldest shark.]]

* There's a ''Jaws'' parody at the beginning of the film ''[[Film/NineteenFortyOne 1941]]'', which even has [[AdamWesting the same actress]] as the beginning of ''Jaws'' (not to mention [[Creator/StevenSpielberg the same director]]) going skinnydipping, where she's "attacked" by a Japanese submarine.

* The DC cover for ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'' story "Rain, Rain, Go Away" has the girls in the water with float devices on their arms as they are about to be attacked Jaws-style by the story's monster.

* In the original 16-series issue of Wacky Packages from the mid-1970s, I'm pretty sure that the only novel they parodied was Jaws. [[http://www.wackypackages.org/stickers/15th_series/gums_small.html The sticker was "Gums", the world's oldest shark.]]

* There's a ''Jaws'' parody at the beginning of the film ''[[Film/NineteenFortyOne 1941]]'' which even has [[AdamWesting the same actress]] as the beginning of ''Jaws'' (not to mention [[Creator/StevenSpielberg the same director]]) going skinnydipping, where she's "attacked" by a Japanese submarine.

** The 1978 B-movie ''Film/{{Barracuda}}'' is [[FollowTheLeader basically a clone of Jaws]] involving a beachfront resort town being terrorized. Unlike the aforementioned Jaws or Orca however, this movie involves not one but several killer fish.

* The parody horror movie ''Saturday The 14th'' manages to pull off a Jaws spoof coupled with a spoof of another famous horror movie by having a fin show up in a battub of a bathing girl, complete with a similar riff, only for the monster to rise and reveal an {{Expy}} of ''Film/CreatureFromTheBlackLagoon''.

** The 1978 B-movie ''Barracuda'' is [[FollowTheLeader basically a clone of Jaws]] involving a beachfront resort town being terrorized. Unlike the aforementioned Jaws or Orca however, this movie involves not one but several killer fish.

* Also done in the Dutch comedy "Filmpje" (1995) with Paul De Leeuw, when his character swims towards other beach guests, who immediately run in freight. The music during this scene is directly taken from "Jaws".

* The song "Baby Shark" started out as a [[http://dragon.sleepdeprived.ca/songbook/songs3/S3_31.htm campfire song]] about Jaws growing up and eating a swimmer, while another version starts by introducing a Jaws family. As the song became popular as a catchy children's song, the story shifted to a family of sharks hunting a school of fish [[NeverSayDie who ultimately survive]]. The most popular version of the song by the South Korean company Pinkfong starts with chords reminiscent of the ''Jaws'' theme (though they're actually [[RockMeAmadeus lifted from a song]] by Music/AntoninDvorak).

* Cover of ''Magazine/{{MAD}}'' Magazine [[http://www.madcoversite.com/mad180.html issue 180, January 1976.]]

* A shark gobbles up a Whammy and Tammy Whammette as they water ski on ''Series/PressYourLuck.''

* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' After Lois temporarily becomes single, your friendly-neighborhood sexual predator, Quagmire sings the Jaws theme as catchprase "gi-gi-gi-gi-giggity" in supermarket while pushing a shopping cart.